As a TPM, you will drive larger prioritized efforts aligned with engineering and company strategy with a bias toward action, a demeanor of vitality, proactivity, and initiative that results in tangible impact. You thrive when given the chance to create or optimize systems and have a customer-centric mentality.

This role will have an unparalleled opportunity to influence the velocity, inclusivity, and trajectory of development within Slack Engineering. If this sounds like a good fit for you, please apply and connect with our team!

What you will be doing:

• Work closely with your Product Management and Engineering counterparts to develop a strategy, roadmaps, and quarterly goals for mobile, desktop and other platforms

• Establish metrics to measure the health of programs

• Build and maintain timelines, project plans, and communication artifacts to ensure everyone is operating from the most recent and accurate information

• Influence product and multi-functional teams to find opportunities to drive impact

• Perform risk management and scope management on projects, and identify blockers

• Provide timely updates to stakeholders as changes occur with projects within the programs they support

• Identify decisions required to move a project forward, settle decision makers, and ensure decisions are made to drive projects forward

• Locate and define new operational excellence improvement opportunities

• Lead and facilitate highly valuable multi-functional review meetings

• Drive software development processes to enable teams, from sprint planning to retrospectives, with an eye towards optimization and team unity

• Bring clarity to areas of deeper complexity

• Break down strategic objectives into tangible programs that teams can successfully execute against

What you should have:

• At least 4 years leading planning, resource management, project lifecycles, and workflows in a dynamic product or engineering organization

• Experience leading technical programs in Product Development, Accessibility, Engineering, or a similar functional area

• Experience crafting and driving programs to implement and maintain digital accessibility, inclusive design, or similar cross-functional practices

• Understanding of the developer efficiency, tools and systems that enable software to be developed and shipped

• Experience with enterprise software SDLC and Agile/Lean delivery methodologies

• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with a capability of effectively communicate technical concepts to engineers and identify technical risks.

• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, and experience managing activities across multiple teams

• Proven track record of delivering sophisticated projects and programs with cross-functional teams

• Self-motivated and the ability to empower others

• JIRA user experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or two years of equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Git, Github, SQL, data analytics, Grafana, and real time monitoring software

• Experience working with vendors to run upstream and downstream dependencies

• Familiarity with accessibility standard processes on desktop and mobile and common assistive technologies